How to find out if the ethernet cable is plugged into the physical interface without bringing up NIC

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How to find out if the ethernet cable is plugged into the physical interface without bringing up an interface?

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环境

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • 6.x

问题

• How to check if the ethernet cable is plugged into the physical interface without bringing up an interface?

决议

• For checking the status of the ethernet cable use ip link command.

1) If the ethernet cable is connected, and it is up also then it will show in the ip link command. Check the output of eth0.

Raw

# ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 5000
    link/ether 00:16:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:16:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

In this case, eth0 <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> is connected , and the status of the ethernet cable is also Up "state UP qlen 5000".

2) If ethernet cable is connected, but it is down then check below output:

Raw

# ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 5000
    link/ether 00:16:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:16:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

In this case, eth0 <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> is connected, but the status of the ethernet cable is down.

3) If ethernet cable is not connected,then check below output:

In this nothing will come.

Raw

# ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:16:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff